VIPER rover will brave the coldest regions of the moon to search for water
Before NASA sends humans back to the moon, it plans to send a robotic explorer: The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, rover.
Watch NASA’s animation of upcoming Artemis 1 moon mission
NASA is aiming to put the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024, but the space agency is already generating early buzz around the upcoming endeavor.
Watch NASA’s mega moon rocket blast its engines in pre-launch test
Watch NASA conduct a full-length test of the core stage of its next-generation Space Launch System rocket destined to take astronauts to the moon.
This tiny, round probe could explore caves on the moon
Most exploration of the moon focuses on its surface, but a trio of missions proposed to ESA would head below ground to explore the subterranean lunar world.
NASA names winner of a $93 million lunar lander contract
NASA has dished out $93.3. million to Firefly Aerospace to help it deliver a suite of science investigations and technology demonstrations to the moon in 2023.
Check out Earth’s stunning cameo in this moon flyover video
NASA is busy making preparations to send the first woman and next man to the moon, but you can visit right now thanks to this impressive flyover video.
Relive the dramatic Apollo 14 launch and moon landing, 50 years later
On Jan. 31, 1971, NASA sent the Apollo 14 mission skyward. The eighth crewed mission in the Apollo program (and third one to reach the surface of the Moon) lifted…
Biden put a striking moon rock in the Oval Office
A curious, dark moon rock has arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Among busts of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt, President Joe Biden chose to…
Moon rock brought to Earth for first time in four decades
China’s Chang’e 5 mission has successfully brought a sample of moon rock to Earth in a complex mission that could shed more light on the moon’s formation.
Chinese spacecraft carrying moon rocks begins its journey back to Earth
A Chinese spacecraft containing a sample of rocks and dust from the moon is on its way back to Earth.